My only Ox Died, is the game over?

[Memestress]

I cannot do ANYTHING without an ox (and ofc I have a horse which is actually useless for construction or transporting). I can't even bring goods to sell them, which means I can't ever buy another ox.

Is my game over? Should I just restart?

[Matt (Hooded Horse)]

Goods don't need an ox, only timber does. You should still be able to trade at the trade post.

You can click on a hitching post and buy a new ox if you have twenty wealth.

There's also the option to raid a bandit camp if you have a militia to get some wealth.

[Blackcobalt]

Originally posted by Memestress:

I cannot do ANYTHING without an ox (and ofc I have a horse which is actually useless for construction or transporting). I can't even bring goods to sell them, which means I can't ever buy another ox.

Is my game over? Should I just restart?

LOL Your Ox died LOL

[Wrong Number]

My guy, entire economy of the settlement holds on single Ox to build everything

[RaNdOmKiLs666]

And this is why I got a second Ox as soon as I started my village, also because it's more efficient then having one Ox.

[FAIR]

It's game over if your ox dies and you have no merchant. You can't build anything.
It's the most stupid mechanic ever created, as if ppl couldn't carry a log.

[Sythalin]

Originally posted by Wrong Number:

My guy, entire economy of the settlement holds on single Ox to build everything

This.

Originally posted by FAIR:

It's game over if your ox dies and you have no merchant. You can't build anything.
It's the most stupid mechanic ever created, as if ppl couldn't carry a log.

Also this.

Ox should be a speed boost maybe, but the only source of moving logs? Come on now...

[Somethings Burnin]

Originally posted by Sythalin:

Originally posted by Wrong Number:

My guy, entire economy of the settlement holds on single Ox to build everything

This.

Originally posted by FAIR:

It's game over if your ox dies and you have no merchant. You can't build anything.
It's the most stupid mechanic ever created, as if ppl couldn't carry a log.

Also this.

Ox should be a speed boost maybe, but the only source of moving logs? Come on now...

If it is possible make it where it takes two people/families to move the tree.

Side note, how did your Ox die?

[Huzberd]

I got raided and my ox died, my whole village is in shambles, Skalitz is a ruin. The good part is that I have a trader and exactly the 10 Wealth that I needed to create a trade rout otherwise it would have been game over. I played for 4 hours. I do think this is an oversight from the developer and maybe something can be done about it in the future like someone mentioned above, like 2 families can move a tree or something.

[Fatum]

Agree..it's kinda silly workers cant just move the trees. It would also alleviate some of the issues people are having where things just stop working. I think you get to a point where your Ox...oxen? oxenses? Oxi? are being overwhelmed and the AI breaks.

[Sollaar]

My ox's keep running away, I've got 4 hitching posts and it wants me to build another 2....

[Pixel Hunter]

Originally posted by Sythalin:

Originally posted by Wrong Number:

My guy, entire economy of the settlement holds on single Ox to build everything

This.

Originally posted by FAIR:

It's game over if your ox dies and you have no merchant. You can't build anything.
It's the most stupid mechanic ever created, as if ppl couldn't carry a log.

Also this.

Ox should be a speed boost maybe, but the only source of moving logs? Come on now...

absolutely agree. or, if you run out of timber and your timber lodge isn't built you need to be able to slowly get timber with unassigned families. I like how banished did it frankly. For instance, during the off season farmers would do other things etc, like cut timber you assigned to cut.

[Panzerechse]

@Sollaar You need one guy per ox working in the hitching post/small stable or it will run away.

[ShepherdOfCats]

Originally posted by Blackcobalt:

Originally posted by Memestress:

I cannot do ANYTHING without an ox (and ofc I have a horse which is actually useless for construction or transporting). I can't even bring goods to sell them, which means I can't ever buy another ox.

Is my game over? Should I just restart?

LOL Your Ox died LOL

I got the reference. Gonna rename my village "Oregon" now.

[DasBean]

I had this, Ox died in a raid and every time i bought a new one it wouldn't get delivered... gonna have to restart

[Big Tex]

Originally posted by RaNdOmKiLs666:

And this is why I got a second Ox as soon as I started my village, also because it's more efficient then having one Ox.

I got a second ox in the first spring. Three months later it ran away. I don't know why it ran away. I had two hitching posts.